Thursday, October 27, 2011

Why R is cooler than SAS

The coolest things in science are dinosaurs and volcanoes.

R can draw pictures of volcanoes.

Ergo, R is cooler than SAS.

This mountain is drawn with the rgl package and data from the package. The figure generated by R is interactive, allowing you to swoop around the mountain with your mouse.

I found out about this from a post on R-bloggers. The post has a cool-looking exercise, but I couldn't get the code to run on my first try.

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